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Sunday, April 30th, 2023

Clarence Thomas Didn’t Recuse Himself From a 2004 Appeal Tied to Harlan Crow’s Family Business

Author:     Lauren Steussy
Source:     Reader Supported News / Business Insider
Publication Date:     25 April 2023
 Link: Clarence Thomas Didn’t Recuse Himself From a 2004 Appeal Tied to Harlan Crow’s Family Business
Stephan:  

And here is the latest on Clarence Thomas. His corruption without any consequences, with stories breaking week after week, should offend every American. And as the polls are showing it has. Look at the dramatic drop in respect and sense of the court’s  fairness. All this needs to be seen in the context of the Dobb’s decision

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. Credit: Robert Franklin / AP

Justice Clarence Thomas didn’t recuse himself from a 2004 appeals case, even though the company being sued was part of the real estate empire run by Harlan Crow, the GOP mega-donor who has showered Thomas with lavish trips starting in 1997 and more recently bought Thomas’ childhood home, according to Bloomberg.

Thomas previously told Bloomberg that it was OK for him to accept gifts from Harlan Crow because the GOP mega-donor did not have “business before the court.”

But the 2004 appeal ties the Crow family name to a case that did come before the Supreme Court: In January 2005, the court denied the appeal petition, a $25 million copyright claim brought by an architecture firm against Trammell Crow Residential Co., a development company that’s part of the real estate empire built by Crow’s father. The Supreme Court’s decision ultimately benefitted Trammell Crow Residential.

Thomas is facing heavy scrutiny following a series of ProPublica reports earlier this month that said 

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